SNIA Technical Work

SNIA’s members share a common goal to advance and
standardize both established and emerging technologies
that facilitate and improve data movement, security,
management, storage, and performance.

SNIA occasionally makes available public review draft copies
of some of the technical work being developed.

If you are interested in participating in any of the following
projects and your company is already a SNIA Member, then just
sign up for your free login account. If your company is not a
SNIA Member please see about joining so that you can start
participating. To find out additional information about a particular
project contact SNIA at tcadmin@snia.org.

SNIA Standards, Software, and
Technical White Papers

Technology Area	Standards, Software, and White Papers	Technical Work Group
Cloud Storage Technologies	Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Cloud Data Management Interface Reference Implementation Hyperscaler Storage White Paper	Cloud Storage TWG Cloud Storage TWG SNIA Technical Council
Computational Storage	Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model Computational Storage API	Computational Storage Computational Storage
Data Governance & Security	Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Format Specification LTFS Bulk Transfer Standard Applications of LTFS for Cloud Storage Use Cases White Paper TLS Specification for Storage Systems SNIA Storage Security: Storage Management Security White Paper SNIA Storage Security: Fibre Channel Security White Paper SNIA Storage Security: Encryption and Key Management White Paper SNIA Sanitization Technical White Paper	Security TWG Security TWG Security TWG Security TWG
Networked Storage	Requirements for Cross-Industry Alliances
Persistent Memory	NVM Programming Model (NPM) Persistent Memory Hardware Threat Model Non-volatile Persistent Memory Remote Access for High Availability White Paper Persistent Memory Atomics and Transactions White Paper Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Specification	SDXI TWG
Physical Storage	Native NVMe-oF™ Drive Specification IP-Based Drive Management Specification Object Drive Key Value API Specification Simple IP Based Drive Mockup-4 IP Based Drive Array Mockup-2 Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Real World Storage Workload IO Capture & Test Specification for Datacenter Storage Physical Connectors and Transceiver Standards	Object Drive TWG Object Drive TWG Object Drive TWG Object Drive TWG Object Drive TWG Solid State Storage TWG Solid State Storage TWG SFF Technology Affiliate TWG
Power Efficiency Measurement	SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification	Green Storage TWG
Storage Management	Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API Software Defined Storage White Paper	Scalable Storage Management (SSM) TWG SNIA Technical Council
Completed Technical Work	Architectural Model for Data Integrity White Paper Common RAID Disk Data Format (DDF) Hypervisor Storage Interfaces for Storage Optimization White Paper iSCSI Management API (IMA) Multipath Management API (MMA) NDMP V4 Software Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) eXtensible Access Method (XAM) XAM Software Development Kit (XAM SDK)

All of the technical work listed in the above table is led by SNIA’s Technical Council and developed by SNIA’s Technical Work Groups (TWG), volunteer participants from SNIA’s member companies. All employees from member companies have the opportunity to participate in SNIA TWGs. There are many benefits to participating in Technical Work Groups, including gaining in-depth expert knowledge of the standards in development.

SNIA Standards, Software, and Technical White Papers

SNIA Standards, Software, and
Technical White Papers